[[Image:YakovlevnPolyakov.jpg|thumb|150px| The house of merchants Yakovlev and Polyakov]]

[[Image:YakovlevnPolyakov.jpg|thumb|150px| The house of merchants Yakovlev and Polyakov]]

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The foundation year of the city is unknown and is either 1730 or 1739. The name of founding father is Akinfey Demidov, a Russian mine-owner who started copper extraction and melting in the region. Later on his business spread to the gold and silver and the family reached all-Russian scale. The city became a fort and built a dam. This activity was major for centuries to come. Except that, nature and geography explorers never abandoned this Siberian place. Pyotr Petrovich Semyonov Tian-Shansky and Alexander von Humboldt lead their expedition routes across the city.

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The foundation year of the city is unknown and is either 1730 or 1739. The name of founding father is Akinfey Demidov, a Russian mine-owner who started copper extraction and melting in the region. Later on his business spread to the gold and silver and the family reached all-Russian scale. The city became a fort and built a dam. This activity was major for centuries to come. Except that, nature and geography explorers never abandoned this Siberian place. Pyotr Petrovich Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky] and Alexander von Humboldt [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt] lead their expeditions across the city.

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The city was founded in the XVIII century as a center of silver and copper mining, and has a population of over 600,000.

History

The house of merchants Yakovlev and Polyakov

The foundation year of the city is unknown and is either 1730 or 1739. The name of founding father is Akinfey Demidov, a Russian mine-owner who started copper extraction and melting in the region. Later on his business spread to the gold and silver and the family reached all-Russian scale. The city became a fort and built a dam. This activity was major for centuries to come. Except that, nature and geography explorers never abandoned this Siberian place. Pyotr Petrovich Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky [1] and Alexander von Humboldt [2] lead their expeditions across the city.